This project requires you to learn how to use Adobe Premiere, however, you have been using Final Cut Express for the last few years, how much time should I invest into learning about this new software? Because in another few years it’s bound to change again, what is the point?
Rather, how different are the two technologies?
‘It is being comfortable with change and flow as the day to day conditions of knowledge production and dissemination, and recognizing that all of this may change, and appear differently in six months’ (Adrian Miles, “Network Literacy: A New Path to Knowledge”, 2007) so how much time and concentration do we invest when we know everything is about to change? As I grew up and was welcomed into the online world I learnt how to use MySpace and MSN, gradually, these technologies transformed into what is now Facebook and Skype, however, as Miles says it is about being comfortable with importantly ‘the flow’. This word in particular is highlighted, as perhaps change is not noticeable rather, we are so used to software gradually updating and mirroring itself through other forms that the changes are never radical. Nothing is ever going to be produced that is years ahead of current technology, and that is why we don’t need to recognize the change that is upon us as it is ever so slight. Rather, the importance is to continue to be in the ‘flow’ of things. ‘While Flickr or any other service may be eclipsed by something else, these principles survive’ (Adrian Miles, “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge”, 2007) one of ‘these principles’ refer to ‘having access to skills that let you collate and build with these varieties of content and knowledge’, reinforcing my idea that as long as technologies are progressively being replaced by more advanced updates, once having learnt the initial steps of a technology that is of your time (like MySpace was for my time), the future changes will be implicit as each technology flows into the next update. This seems to also explain the refusal of change and flow by older generations to use 21st century software as it has taken them longer to adjust and to take their first step into the cyber world, lacking the attention younger generations have to invest their learning abilities into technology like Facebook for example. The elder generation will not be susceptible to change or gain recognition of continual change if they haven’t invested the initial requirement of time into the technology we are using right now. If we take a look at past technology, (1:05-1:26), the change between computers then and now seems radical, same situation if we look at what could be our future, (3:50-4:50), seeming overwhelming with unfamiliar technologies. This demonstrates our expectations of change, when in reality a matter of six months will be the upgrade from Final Cut Express to Adobe Premiere, which users recognize.